The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-02-24
COMMENT AND OPINION.

Irremains to be seen whether party can live
and flourish on nothing but vetoes National
Republican.
JUDGE TURrrE's credentials ought to be sent
TO the laundry. Bet ye they won't wash.-De-
troit Tribune
CHARITY is not merely feeding the hungry, but
it is teaching the hungry to earn their own food.
New York Times
INSANITY is getting to be the plea for all the
deviltry the depravity Of man can devise-San
Francisco Examiner
THE toboggan slide to the car-stove: Don't
crowd the mourners. I'll be with you by and BY"
Washington Critic.
EvIcr helps to spell victim. There's skele-
ton in Windsor Castle closet. jubilee or no 1ubl-
lee.-Philadephia Record.
THE desire of every nation Of the globe may
best be expressed thus Let us have Ieace ana
plenty of dynamite guns.-Philadephia Amerl-
can.
HARRISON and Hawley is the slate Of West
ern paper. That may not be the winning slate
in the Republican convention but is q long way
ahead of any that the Democrats Will seriously
think Of Boston Advertiser.
THERE are many men besides old soldiers who
think that ''pauper" is harsh word to apply to
a man who served his country in the ranks dur
ing the war; simply because he has been so un-
fortunate as not to be able to earn his bread.
Boston Journal
The President now sees that he put his sigma
| ture where it would do tho least good when he
signed the Mexican pension bill This act nee
essary cripples the defense of his very proper
course in vetoing the dependent pension bill.
New York World.
THE country and General Benjamin Franklin
Butler are to be congratulated upon the fact
| that Shaping traitor into prison during the
| war for the Union is not actionable In this
blessed year of eighteen hundred and eighty
seven.-Philadelphia Press
| ACCORDING to the New Orleans Picayune, the
| under cat has the advantage in a cat fight. Ii
| any of the principals in the recent family rows
| among the Democrats in Congress can find con-
ISOLATION in this interesting geological discovery
| we beseech them to do so.-New York CONNER
| cial Advertiser.
| WITH only the initial chapters of this story Of
/ Democratic shonesty, demagogy and corrup
| Republicans carried Indiana last November by
| 5000 majority. In the light of all that has hap
| pened since, Indiana ought to be a very hopeful
battle ground in 1S88.-Chicago Journal.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has been applying re
| form principles only where it seemed to be fol
his interest to do so, and has totally disregardec
| these principles where that course seemed the
| better policy. His idea has appeared to be thai
| while the Democratic party was useful in nomi
mating him, the mugwumps were and are lndis
pensable to his election.--New York World.
WHAT is plain is that strikes one-sided
They cannot be controlled by the strikers unless
the latter use violence, and not then unless they
can overcome all the force which lies behind the
State. Even were it possible to do this they
would only produce anarchy and that would no
give them work and wages again. The plair
truth is that they cannot cope with the force op
posed to them; the needs of the public; the laws
of trade; the competition of unorganized labor
Refusal to recognize this can only lead to furthe
disaster-New York Tribune.